Bordeaux Location

This picture shows the location of Bordeaux which is considered as the 9th most populated city in France !
This city is in the south-west of France .
Bordeaux is :
498 km from Paris,
172 km from Pau, 170 km from Biarritz
220 km from Toulouse, 202 km from Saint-Sébastien (Spain)
108 km from Angoulême, 51 km from Arcachon
210 km from Limoges .

This town cross By the Garonne a river who measure 647 km !
A long river who take his source in Spain in the Val d'Aran .
This river is overcome by a Bridge , the last Bridge on downstream , the Bridge of Aquitaine !
Bordeaux is a port ! But , the boat docks in the estuary of the Gironde :)

Bordeaux , has really different type of typographie such as : hill , marsh , great plain !

The ground are essantialy compound of gravel , sand !
This ground are ideal for the practice of viticulture , The city is among the world’s major wine industry centres. Bordeaux wine had this name by the famous wine , that has been produced in the region next the 8th century.

The Weather of Bordeaux

The Weather in Bordeaux is relatively specific to its geographical position at the end of the Garonne . Your stay will be under the sign of a oceanic climate, thanks to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. Winters are generally mild the Atlantic give some precipitations. In summer temperatures are around 24 ° C with some quite sudden changes. The rains will be rarer but present regularly This town has aproximatly 150 day of raini . The Bordeaux Weather can be very changing !
This Climate is really clement ! In Bordeaux :P

Different types of transport

We can go In Bordeaux with a lot of sort of transport
The Saint-Jean train station , near the centre of the city, has 4 million passengers at year. It's served by SNCF railway's , the TGV, that gets to Paris in three hours, with connections to major European centres such as Lille, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Geneva and London. The TGV also serves Toulouse . A regular train service is provided to Nantes, Nice, Marseille and Lyon.
Historically the train line used to terminate at a station on the right bank of the river Garonne near the Pont de Pierre, and passengers crossed the bridge to get into the city. A single track steel railway bridge was constructed in the 1850s, by Gustave Eiffel (who built The Eiffel tower) , to bring trains across the river direct into Saint-Jean train station . The old station was later converted and in 2010 comprised a cinema and restaurants. The single track Eiffel bridge became a bottleneck and a new bridge was built.

Bordeaux is served by an international airport, Aéroport of Bordeaux Mérignac, located 8 km from the city center in the suburban city of Mérignac !

Bordeaux has an important public transport system called Tram et Bus de la CUB (TBC). This company is run by the Keolis group. The network consists of:

3 tram lines (A, B and C)

A boat shuttle on the Garonne river .

History

The History of Bordeaux , is very very long ! And boring , tired … But it's important ^^

Between 30,000 and 20,000 years ago the area of Bordeaux was inhabited by the Neanderthal , a very great resident of Bordeaux ^^
In historical times, around 300 years before J.C, it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe . The fondation of house was discovered next the Garonne !

When the Gaules (Fance) was conquered by the Roman , the roman planted vines for did wines , and name This Town Burdigala !
Burdigala was the first Town in Gaule , who had roman construction !

-Since aqueduct ,
-Temple ,
-Therm
-Curie
-Forum
In 28 before J-C Burdigala was the 14 th town of Gaule Aquitaine !
It's a importance lying in the commerce of tin , and lead towards Rome.
Later it became capital of Roman Aquitaine.
Flourishing especially during the Severan dynasty (third century).
In 70 , this town was declared by Vespasien administrative capital !
Burdigala was the most prosperous in the time who name severe (193-235) !
In 276 it was sacked by the Vandals !
The invasion barbarian was a hard hit for the town !
Who was burnt , looted …
Further ravage was brought by the same Vandals in 409,
The Visigoths in 414
And the Franks in 498
Beginning a period of obscurity for the city.
But he was rebuilted by the people and the trade !
they become again :)

In the middle age the name Burdigala changed and became Burdhil , the town Christianized by saint Hilaire and saint Martin In 400 !
After a lot of wars between the king …
Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England. He began English town !
The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of St. André was built .

The cathedral was consecrated by Pope Urban II in 1096.
Of the original Romanesque edifice, only a wall in the nave remains.
The Royal Gate is from the early 13th century, while the rest of the construction is mostly from the 14th-15th centuries.
The building is a national monument of France.

The modern time :
This time begin when Bordeaux began french a second time .
In 1462, Bordeaux obtained a parliament .
But regained importance only in the 16th century when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from the West Indies .
In 1653, during the Fronde civil war in France, the city was annexed by Louis XIV, when his troops entered Bordeaux.
The city, however, flourished even more during the 18th century, and the architecture of the buildings was used for the modernization of Paris during the rule of Napoleon III.
He entrusted the task to Baron Haussmann, the then-Prefect of Bordeaux.
During the Second World War, it was also the capital of the French government when the German invasion of Paris was anticipated.
The famed author, Victor Hugo, has aptly described Bordeaux
Indeed this historic city is worth a visit, even if it is just to taste its delightful French wine.
From 1940 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy established , a submarine base at Bordeaux.

The twining

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Bordeaux is twininnig with a lot of town in the world it's for the economy or agreement for example the tram , he came Quebec !

Bristol, United Kingdom, since 1947
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Lima, Peru, since 1957
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Quebec City, Canada, since 1962
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Munich, Germany, since 1964
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Los Angeles, United States, since 1968
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Porto, Portugal, since 1978
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Fukuoka, Japan, since 1982
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Madrid, Spain, since 1984
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Ashdod, Israel, since 1984
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Baku, Azerbaijan, since 1985
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Casablanca, Morocco, since 1988
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Saint Petersburg, Russia, since 1993
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Wuhan, China, since 1998
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Bilbao, Spain 2000
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Oran, Algeria, since 2003
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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, since 2005
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Zahlé, Lebanon, since 2006
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Ramallah, Palestine, since 2007
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The cultural heritage

Bordeaux is classified "City of Art and History". The city has been inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List .Le Pont de pierre, or "Stone Bridge" in English

Le Église Sainte-Croix ("Church of the Holy Cross")

Le Jardin botanique de la Bastide (4 hectares)

Miroir d'eau place de la Bourse

Grand théatre

Bordeaux Porte Cailhau

Church of Saint Pierre

Bordeaux-Notre-Dame

Sports in Bordeaux

I will finish by the most populary sports played in Bordeaux :

The first and the more popular is football : the team is Girondin de Bordeaux !
This team was created in 1881 but at the time , this team was not really good. They lost their first football match 12-0 when they played against Burdigalienne ! a hard match for the team and the morale of the team ^^"

The second is rugby : their team is called the Union Bordeaux Bègles
This team is rated 9th of the top 14 with 30 points ! Their rugby stadium was built in 1920 and had 10 000 places, its name is Jacques Chaban-Delmas stadium.

The third is horse riding :
Bordeaux horse jumping is a great instution ! This is an international competition of horse riding & it was created by Henry delage . This competition is famous for it aussi difficile que celle de la côte est des U.S.A (//I can't understand this sentence . This test will be in July , In Bordeaux !